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Ground-ivy

Glechoma hederacea

24,139Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
123Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan231
Feb359
Mar1,163
Apr7,203
May5,565
Jun2,402
Jul1,485
Aug1,266
Sep968
Oct557
Nov314
Dec210

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,614
2Cambridgeshire England925
3Norfolk England884
4Suffolk England847
5Oxfordshire England839
6Essex England837
7Herefordshire, County of England544
8Kent England510
9Surrey England469
10Devon England403
11Somerset England359
12Gloucestershire England357
13North Yorkshire England336
14Lincolnshire England296
15Northamptonshire England290
16,332 England439 Scotland545 Wales67 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
24,139
Peak month
April
Counties with records
123
Scientific name
Glechoma hederacea
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
59,707
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Glechoma
Name with authority
Glechoma hederacea L.
Contributing datasets
55

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q162544 · GBIF 2926557